2 Oakland Teens Charged in Foiled Murder-for-Hire Plot Face Life in Prison

The mother of an Oakland County teen accused of conspiring with another teen to hire a hit man said her daughter, 18, “just wanted justice” for her boyfriend, who police said was gunned down in Flint a year ago.

“I’m not saying these kids were justified in doing this, but she’s being labeled a monster,” Elizabeth Parks, 34, of Waterford Township told The Oakland Press after her daughter, Mia Rae Buscemi, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to solicit murder.

“This is out of her character,” Parks told the newspaper.

Dallys Emery Vogel, 19, also of Waterford, was similarly charged in the case. If convicted, the teens could spend the rest of their lives in prison.

The alleged murder-for-hire plot began to unravel last month after a confidential informant told police he had been contacted by the teens, who wanted street justice after Wesley G. Gillmore, 16, of Pontiac, the father of Buscemi’s child, was killed and the case went cold before arrests could be made, WXYZ reports.

Undercover detectives met with Buscemi and Vogel on Nov. 4, and they reportedly told them who they wanted killed and how they wanted it done, then paid the detectives $2,000 to carry out the hit. The detectives then placed the pair under arrest.

The two were arraigned Nov. 6 in 51st District Court in Waterford, where Judge Judge Richard Kuhn set bond at $100,000 cash or surety. They were both due in court Thursday afternoon.

Buscemi and Gillmore reportedly met while attending school through the juvenile justice system,. They were at a gathering in Flint on Nov. 17, 2013, when Gillmore was shot and killed after an argument. Parks said Gillmore died in her daughter’s arms, and the shooting was “the most traumatic thing she ever saw in her life.”

“She hasn’t been right since,” Parks said, noting that her daughter was frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation into Gillmore’s murder.

She doesn’t believe her daughter wanted someone killed as much as “she wanted someone in jail” for the crime.

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Dallys Emery Vogel, 19, left, and Mia Rae Buscemi, 18, are accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill the man they think is responsible for the murder last year of Buscemi’s boyfriend. (Photos: Oakland County Sheriff’s Office)